Food Blog

Phood Blog about “Snack food, fast food, pizza, beer, and other delicacies.”

LTH forum Chicago-Based Culinary Conversations. An excellent way to keep up on all the local food news. For instance it just informed me that Achatz is leaving Trio to open his own place by the end of the summer. Here’s Grant talking about it on eGullet.

Meaty role, veggie actor “One of the stars of the upcoming New Line Cinema comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” is a committed vegetarian.” His brother works for PETA, yet they’re still going to let him into the White Castle Hall of Fame, where he intends to urge the inclusion of veggie burgers onto the menu. “They can’t say that no animals were harmed to make this movie,” said PETA President Ingrid Newkirk.

Vodka: America’s Spirit Of Choice An article on super premium vodkas that mentions Wyborowa Single Estate, which comes in a bottle designed by Frank Gehry and Magadanskaya Vodka, which Josef Stalin toasted Harry Truman and Winston Churchill with at the Potsdam Conference. “Vodka accounts for more than 26% of all distilled spirits sold in the U.S., eclipsed only by the combined sales figure for all whiskies — Scotch, Irish, Bourbon and Canadian.”

Designdetector has a short excerpt from Not on the Label, another expose on the food industry. ” ‘But free-range and organic birds…’ I started to ask without wanting to know the answer. ‘…nearly all come through the same plants, yes. There’s no difference except that in plants which process organic birds you can tell the organic ones. They are used to being allowed to run about a bit and so they try to escape when they are shackled.’ “